Mr. Clean for your toilet bowl?

This idea has been everywhere on Pinterest!  It's so easy, just pop a piece of a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser into your toilet bowl and - Voila! - No more gunky toilet bowl ring!  I knew I had to give this one a shot.  Mom never cleans the toilet bowl, it's always me, so if I could find a quicker way to do it, I'll take it!

So essentially, you just cut off a piece of a Magic Eraser, and throw it in your toilet bowl over night.  Then, come morning, the Magic Eraser will have sucked up all the gunk.

Sound too good to be true?  That's because it is.  I was so hopeful!  But it did nothing for my toilet bowl!  No gunk was gone, and now I had to fish out some waterlogged sponge out of the toilet bowl.. EW.  That's worse than just scrubbing the gunk!

So I'd say pass on this one guys!

Next up I'm hoping to make some brownies!  Hopefully that post will be up by Tuesday at the latest.  On Tuesday I'm also going on an all day shopping trip with my mother to IKEA! And Pier 1 Imports! And wherever else our feet take us! :)

Learning from kitchen mistakes

I think breakfasts are the biggest issue for me.  I used to have a toasted bagel with a melted slice of cheese on it for breakfast everyday.  It was delicious, but 1) it wasn't very nutritious, and 2) it was kind of boring.  Then I switched to oatmeal, but then I got tired of that too.  I wake up early in the morning though, and I'm ready for work in 15 minutes.  Thus, I don't have much time for anything all that tasty.

Remember the Breakfast Quinoa and the Baked Oatmeal posts?  Well I made both of those on the same day, and I also made a Spinach and Egg White Frittata  (which actually wasn't all egg whites thanks to my inability to read the box right!).  

So now I had ALL of these premade breakfasts!  And it as a pretty good system.  I could just come downstairs, grab a jar, and go get ready.  And if I didn't finish it all before I had to leave for work? No worries, as it was already in a transportable container.

But herein lies the issue.  There are 12 jars there.  That's almost 2 weeks worth of breakfasts.  I don't know about you, but when something's been sitting in my fridge for that long, I start to get worried.  I just don't trust it.  So the point of the post isn't so much about the delicious egg white frittata (which is full of protein and super tasty!) but more in the issue of waste.  I had to throw a couple of these jars out (though all the breakfast quinoa was eaten lickity split ahah!), and that's just wasteful.  It's a waste of both my money and my time.  we all make mistakes, there's no doubt about it.  The key is to learn from them and, in this case, remember in the future to half my recipes!  If you have a family to feed, then 12 breakfasts is nothing, but when it's just one mouth, it's a lot!